Samueli School Dean Magnus Egerstedt announced that the Engineering+ Society Institute will focus on “Engineering AI for Society” with Athina Markopoulou as the institute’s inaugural director. Markopoulou is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the director of the ProperData Center. She argues that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the grand challenges of our time. On one hand, AI has the potential to transform work, health care, education, and quality of life. It can democratize knowledge by making it accessible and lowering the barrier for technical skills. It can advance engineering disciplines, organize information, increase efficiency and productivity, and propel economic growth. On the other hand, there are growing concerns about potential societal harms including fraud and misinformation, security and privacy, safety of AI-driven systems, equity and fairness. People are also concerned about the impact of AI on the workforce, its energy demands, as well as longer-term existential threats….Continue Reading Samueli School’s Engineering+ Society Institute to Focus on AI
